Envoronment
March 10, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with DeLene Beeland Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...
Eruptions
Wednesday Whatzits: Icelandic sagas, Chaiten, Erta'Ale's lava lake and a volcano simulator We're continuing to watch the earthquakes in Iceland, the lava lake is rising at Erta'Ale and a volcano simulator on the web.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Scientia Pro Publica -- It's Almost Here! Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival devoted to sharing the best science, medical, environment and nature blog writing with the public, and it is seeking submissions and hosts!
Effect Measure
Biocontrol in the UK: will they be singing, "Where have all the flowers gone"? (tagline: When will they ever learn) Australian rabbit stew, with a side of kudzu, anyone?
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 35 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
March 9, 2010
Mike the Mad Biologist
Will Mismanaging the Everglades Hurt Florida Gov. Charlie Crist? If Crist is trying to gain moderate support, this is really going to hurt.
Framing Science
Transcript of AU Forum "The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, & Politics in an Unsustainable World" Full text of remarks, comments, and questions from last week's public radio broadcast forum...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
March 8, 2010
Eruptions
Monday Musings: Iceland, Chilean volcanoes and the SI/USGS Update Things may be settling down in Iceland, Chilean volcanoes still quiet after the earthquake and views of Chaiten from space.
The Island of Doubt
Climatologists who are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore Randy Olson says: There comes a point where the public DOES want to see the science community stand up for themselves. And as if on cue comes the release of another round of once-private emails among members of one section...
Framing Science
Should Prestigious Scientists Fight Back on Climate Change? Tit-for-tat attacks on climate skeptics threaten to feed more of the problem rather than advance solutions....
March 7, 2010
Dynamics of Cats
Eyjafjallajökull As the three remaining readers may have noticed, I've been a bit too busy to blog for a couple of weeks. But other blogs go on, and right now, over on SciBling "Eruptions" there is a fascinating live discussion...
Eruptions
Mt. Baker Volcano Research Center Update Need your fix for news and information about Mt. Baker? Sure you do.
bioephemera
A not-so-fun cartoon: "plastics kill" A blunt animated message for Surfrider's Rise Above Plastics, with Portland's Borders Perrin Norrander (full credits here) Via Notcot and others....
March 6, 2010
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Question for the hivemind. Which has a larger carbon footprint: An office that uses a photocopier or an office that uses carbon paper?...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Flower Porn from Frankfurt am Main's PalmenGarten, 2 Another stunning flower as photographed in Frankfurt am Main's PalmenGarten
Stoat
Keep your eye on the ball [This post got extensively re-written (you can tell that, cos it has a title that doesn't fit its URL :-) after I realised that I, too, had been fooled by the septic FUD. Oh dear. I've stopped now: you can...
March 5, 2010
Framing Science
USAToday: Scientists Misreading the Polls on Climate Change Scientists and advocates, prone to their own perceptual biases, over-estimating the impact of ClimateGate....
Tomorrow's Table
2009 Visualization Challenge Within its tiny white flowers, thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) does what most plants avoid: It fertilizes itself.
Stoat
IOP: I hate it when they do that The ever-vigilant BigCityLib has spotted some revisionism by the Institute of Physics: they have silently updated their "clarification": the link http://www.iop.org/News/news_40679.html now points to a statement dated 5th March, instead of the original, which was 2nd march. What a bunch...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Flower Porn from Frankfurt am Main's PalmenGarten This is what every bee goes mad for ..
Tomorrow's Table
Join the Bill Gates Book Club and Read Tomorrow's Table anyone who reads this book will be convinced of the authors' sincerity and intelligence - even if, like me, you never try any of the cool-sounding recipes
Framing Science
Veteran Filmmaker Criticizes Violent "Wildlife Pornography" on TV and at Amusement Parks A veteran wildlife filmmaker argues that Orcas and other large predators should not be held in captivity unless an animal's release into the wild, perhaps after an injury, will mean certain, immediate death.
A Few Things Ill Considered
Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing, venting From up north, we have some more troubling news. Actually very troubling. Catastophic release of methane hydrates is a prime suspect in a few events dramatic enough to show in the earth's geological records, coarse and obscured as that record...
March 4, 2010
Stoat
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes A headline stolen blatantly from HH. But it seems rather applicable to the Institute of Physics. The Grauniad are still pushing them (go big G!) but the IOP are stonewalling: they won't say who wrote their pap; but it seems...
